Top 1200 Catholic Saint Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then at a certain point in my teens I started to go to Catholic churches, by myself. Not because I wanted to be Catholic, but because I wanted to light a candle and say something like a prayer and just sit there. There was something I was missing or trying to reconnect with. But it was a secret at the time. I'd developed this cynical persona and the last thing I wanted to admit was that I was skulking around churches in my spare time.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It was a worship that pleased our Lord more than that which he receives in heaven. Picture to yourself Saint Joseph, adoring the little Child in his arms as his God. He tells of his readiness to die for Christ, of all his plans to promote Christ's glory, and to win more souls to his love. No lover builds more scintillating plans for his loved one than a saint.

No great saint lived without errors.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

I like Paris Saint-Germain a lot.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I am not a perfect saint, by any means.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain

Make this man a saint now, OK?

Saint Petersburg has a fantastic historical atmosphere.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

I am not a saint, and neither do I claim to walk on water.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I believe in myself and in Saint Therese.

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.